Peter Ackroyd's Monstrous East End with David Charnick - 01 - Talks beyond time and place

London beyond time and place

"History and especially the story of London is just a continuous story and we just happen to be in these chapters at the moment. History is not the past, it is just a part of an ongoing story." TALKS BEYOND TIME AND PLACE - EPISODE ONE: DAVID CHARNICK David Charnick is a Londoner, a historian, a writer and a qualified City tour guide. Apart from doing his own “Charnowalks”, he is part of “Footprints of London” and is employed as a tutor for tour guiding. In the first episode of "Talks beyond time and place", David shares his strangest moments as a tour guide and explains what London as a home means to him. PETER ACKROYD'S MONSTROUS EAST END Based on one of David's tours, our main topic is London biographer Peter Ackroyd and his view on London, especially on London's "Monstrous East End". From the "trope of the tramp" in his works to Ackroyd's imaginary projections: Follow us into Peter Ackroyd's powerful, majestic and dark London, which is full of shadows. LINKS Charnowalks - Guided Tours in the City of London and the East End: http://charnowalks.co.uk/ Footprints of London: https://footprintsoflondon.com/ Footprints of London blog: https://footprintsoflondon.com/blog/ "The Trope of the Tramp" David's article for the Literary London Society’s on-line journal about the importance of Ackroyd’s vagrants (including those in Hawksmoor): http://literarylondon.org/the-literary-london-journal/archive-of-the-literary-london-journal/issue-9-2/the-trope-of-the-tramp-ackroyds-vagrants-at-the-heart-of-the-city/ David Charnick's review of Petr Chalupský's "A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd’s London Novels": http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/autumn2017/charnick.pdf "Death and the City": My (Philipp Röttgers') review of David Charnick's short story collection "Death and the City": https://london-beyond-time-and-place.com/review-david-charnick-death-and-the-city/ “Talks beyond time and place” is a series of online conversations by author Philipp Röttgers of "London beyond time and place". Philipp and his guests chat about how London influences their lives and in every episode, they cover certain topics, depending on the individual guest. Among his guests are scholars, historians, tour guides and more and the atmosphere feels like a conversation in a pub. https://london-beyond-time-and-place.com/talks-beyond-time-and-place-episode-01-david-charnick/ Music by Bryan Kolarczyk Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/londonbeyondtimeandplace